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Cast: Anita Höfer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gerd Baltus, Hans Beerhenke, Heidi Joschko, Isa Haller, Käte Jaenicke, Klaus Abramowsky, Kurt Raab, Malgoscha Gebel, Margit Carstensen, Tilly Lauenstein, Wojciech Pszoniak
Category: English Movies
Release: 30 September 1985
Genres: Drama, Romance, War
IMDB: IMDB
Added: July 2, 2011
Description:
Angry Harvest: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.